• More Smokiiig
• More Stamps
• Less Heat
• Zanzig Leads Sing
• Artists Congregate
• Educators Confer
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VOL. XXIII.
WINSTON-SALEM, N. C., FRIDAY. OCTOBER 30, 1942.
Number 5.
DEHYDRATED
NEWS REVIEW
AFRICAN FRONT—
Men of the Eighth Army attacked
El Aaraein, the center of Nazi mine
fields, last Friday evening. Last
night the allied forces, with re-in-
forcements, again attacked the
Axis troops. Many commentators
predicted that the winner of this
battle will very probably be the vic
tor in the North African campaign.
The Vichy French at Dakar are
still expecting an allied invasion by
sea and air.
EXTROPEAN FRONT—
The R. A. F. bombed military ob
jectives in Genoa for three succes
sive nights last week. These bomb
ings directly hit the Rommel com
munication lines and supply bases.
The Allies have conducted a few
coastal raids this week.
PACIFIC FRONT—
The Japanese continued their co
ordinated sea and air attacks on the
Solomon Islands last week, but the
flying leathernecks firmly held their
ground then. A last minute report
released by the Pearl Harbor office,
however, relates fierce and merciless
fighting by both sides yesterday.
The report stated that the Ameri
can troops were winged in by the
enemy on three sides, leaving only
one open for re-enforcements. The
succcss of the American troops defi
nitely depends on the supply and
>re-^nforeemen't|S they ican receive
promptly. Otherwise, the American
people njay expect another Corregi
dor. If the Alliet lose, the Pacific
war will be longer than we now
expect.
RUSSIAN FRONT—
In Stalingrad, last week, the Ger
mans claimed tliey had taken all of
the last Russian airplane factory
there except “one hangar.” But
yesterday the Russians showed signs
of a rapidly developing winter of
fensive, for they counter-attacked
the city constantly.
AMERICAN FRONT—
With the national elections next
week, much of the nation’s business
found itself in a slump ... at least
it was temporarily tossed out of the
window. There weren’t enough con
gressmen present last week to get
a quorum; but those left in Congress
passed the 18-19 draft bill and
spent the rest of their time unearth
ing, re-hashing, and burying the
nine-year-old prohibition issue.
The nation’s food situation this
■^eek is most deplorable^ Due to the
lack of manpower, transportation,
Waste, and hoarding, the nation’s
housewives found grocery shelves
devoid of food. And the coffee is
sue . . . after November 28, coffee
drinkers get one pound every five
weeks.
DR. SIGMUND SKARD
TO SPEAK TONIGHT
WHAT, WHEN,
WHERE
ZANZIG TO LEAD
COMMUNITY SING
By request of the Treasury De
partment, Augustus Zanzig will lead
one of his famous community sings
in Wlinston on Monday evening.
These sings are one of the nation
wide efforts to boost morale; and
North and South 'Carolina have been
selected for the boost during Octo
ber and November. For the past
fifteen years, Zanzig has toured the
country organizing sings as a rep
resentative of the National Recre
ation Association; he is now devot
ing his talent to the War Depart
ment.
What really captures our interest
in Zanzig, however, is not his fame
as much as his connection with Dr.
Vardell. Back in 1914-15, Dr. Var-
dell and Mr. Zanzig were in school
together at the Institute of Musical
Art . . . which is now Julliard
School of Music. They were even
rival lovers in “A Midsummer
Night’s Dream,” and Mr. Zanzig
got his degree in public school music
at the same time that Dr. Vardell
received his.
Since school days, Zanzig has con
tinued his interest in public school
and community music. He believes
in getting all the different groups
of people more unified and cooper
ative through vocal expression. He
has edited collections of songs for
this sort of thing, and he has helped
organize local community sings
throughout the nation.
Our opportunity to see Zanzig at
work will be on Monday night at
seven-thirty, in Eeynold’s Auditor
ium. The program will last less
than an hour in order that Zanzig
may lead singing for Winston-Salem
Teachers’ College at eight-thirty.
THEY HAD A REAL
NICE TIME
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What: Art Conference.
When: Saturday, all day.
Where: Trustees’ Room.
What: Stee Gee Dance.
When: Saturday, 8:30' p. m.
Where: Gym.
What: Community Sing.
When: Monday, 7:00 p. m.
Where: Reynold’s Auditorium.
Wihat: Dr. Mosier.
When: Tuesday, chapel hour.
Where: Memorial Hall.
What: Soph-Junior game.
When: Tuesday, 4:00.
Where: Hockey field.
W(hat: Senior-Freshman game.
When: Wednesday, 4:00.
Where: Hockey field.
What: Dr. Morgan.
When: Thursday, chapel hour.
W^ere: Memorial Hall.
What: Freshman-Soph game.
When: Thursday, 4:00.
Where; Hockey field.
Well, the Freshmen have regained
the dignity they lost “Black”
Thursday on the Athletic field. It
happened Wednesday, October 28,
when the I. R. S. welcomed them
into the fold with a tea in the liv
ing room of Bitting Building.
Miss Lawrence introduced us to
the receiving line, and showed us
where to get our sandwiches and
Russian tea. The sweet lady be
hind the tea pot turned out to be
Mrs. Weinland. She welcomed each
of us and helped to put us at ease.
We sat near Miss Turlington who
was entertaining a large group with
her conversation about her own
hockey playing.
All the freshmen thank Doris
Beal and the I. R- Council for
the enjoyable time they had at the
tea.
Dr. Sigmund Skard, Consultant of
Scandinavian Culture for the Li
brary of Congress, will speak to
night at eight o’clock in the old
chapel on Norway Fights Nazis.
Dr. Skard, who is making a lecture
tour all over this section of the
country under the auspices of the
Speakers Bureau of Royal Norweg
ian Information Service of Wash
ington, gave an informal chat this
morning to several of the history
classes.
THE 'CHAT: In his own words Dr.
Skard entertained us this morning
by what he called ‘‘‘chattering
abou^ my escape.” Ho warned us
that he was a family man, and that
he would talk about his numerous
family ... he hoped, he said, we
could stand it. We did—and liked
it.
Dr. Skard told us about the out
break of the war on April 8, 1940.
He said in his home city of Trond
heim, and for that matter in no
city in Norway, was invasion ex
pected. The people were complete
ly unaware of any danger from
the Nazis . . . He, himself a sound
sleeper, slept through the attacks,
and “woke up being occupied.”
His family, a wife and two sets of
twins, had' kept him out of the
mobilization; he was quite unaware
of any hostility until he tried to
phone the local newspaper office to
check up on the news. The Nazi
See—SKARD—P. 4.
GERMAN SCHOLARS
COOKIE JAR SCORES
Chapel programs to which the
student body looks with greatest
anticipation are those at which Dr.
Charles G. Vardell, dean of the
School of Music, iuiproviaes. Such
was the occasion on Thursday morn
ing when the new students experi
enced for the first time the same
thrill which the upper classmen have
known for several years.
Dr. Vardell began in his usual in
formal manner and explained what
had to be done to a simple melody
to make it into a finished song.
After giving an example, though
we are certain that he must have
left out some details.
Getting his melodies from stud-
See—COOKIE—Page 4.
MR. KENYON
TOffi HOST
The second annual meeting of the
Southeast Regional Conference of
the 'College Art Association will be
held here at Salem, on Saturday,
October 31.
The president of the association,
Dr. Florence H. Robinson of Sweet
Briar, will attend the meeting.
Other representatives will be Pro
fessors of Art from Carolina, Duke,
Meredith, State College, and Salem.
There will be held a morning and
afternoon session. The conference
will begin at 11:30 A. M. and will
continue until 5:30. The members
of the conference will be guests of
Salem College for luncheon. The
conference is for members of the
association only.
During the day several round ta
ble discussions will be held. Mr.
Kenyon will lead a discussion on
“The Problems of Studio Art.”
At five-fifteen Tuesday afternoon,
we cooks (five of us) lugged all of
the food and cooking utensils from
the kitchen to the fireiilace. It was
for the German Club picnic. Well,
after much huffing and puffing, we
finally made it up the hill with our
heavy weights. Upon arriving at
the fireplace, we discovered to our
horror that the fire hadn’t been laid.
S'o three of us trudged down to the
creek to bring back some of those
nicely cut and stacked “trees.”
When we made it back, after fall
ing down several times on the way,
the other cooks had already found
some wood. Disgust, disgust!! We
laid the fire, burnt up the paper—
and the fire went out! Well, by this
time it was 5:30, and time for the
picnic to start. And can you imag
ine it—there were actually ton peo
ple on time—mostly freshmen, too!
Ain’t that just the life, though?
Why do people always come on time
when you aren’t ready!
By a quarter of six, people were
getting sorta hungry, and the fire
still wasn’t doing so good; so I set
the “guests” to finding sticks to
cook hot dogs on. Well, they got
the sticks—too soon—and were
ready to eat. The fire was rather
sick, but we let them burn their
hot dogs anyway. In the meantime,
the cooks were trying to get the
frying pan hot enough to cook ham
burgers. Little me, knowing “too
many cooks spoil the broth” (or
should I say, hamburgers?) tried to
be helpful by pouring the coffee—
over my fingers and into the cups.
Seeing that the sandwiches were
running low, I quickly grabbed one
—and poured some more coffee. I
knew I, wouldn’t get a hot dog and
the grease hadn’t even melted in
See SCHOLARS—Page 3.
MR. HOLDER
INAUGURATES
DISCUSSIONS
The first evening meeting of the
International Relations Club was
held on Wednesday night, October
28, in the living room of Bitting
and was attended by a large number
of students and some of the fac
ulty. Mr. Holder spoke to the group
on, “Peace Following the War.”
He began his talk by saying that
it had always been singular to him
how people went all-out for some
crusade regarding the war, and then
abandoned this crusade after a few
weeks. “Is it right to be so fanat
ical in these crusades as to lose all
sense of values?” ho asked. Dur
ing the i>ast month it seems that
many school children have been so
carried away with the scrap drives
that they have had no time for
their studies. The people of the
United Nations, in particular, should
pay attention to the ideas of
peace as well as to concentrated ef
forts to aid in this war. In the
1920’s the United States was only
interested in making money; we
should be more concerned with the
other nations after this war.
“Another matter of interest is
whether we are identified with
God’s .side,” continued Mr. Holder.
‘ ‘ \Wlien you identify your side with
God, you automatically identify the
opposing side with the devil. It
isn’t a matter of who is wrong and
who is right, but it is rather a
matter of comparative values.” Mr.
Holder then read a clipping regard
ing the views of the Archbishop
of Canterbury. The Archbishop was
quoted as having said, “It is not
a fight for the Christian faith but
a fight against anti-Christians and
for Christian ideals. The Moslems,
Hindus, and Mohammedans are all
fighting side by side with Christians
in this war . . . Even though the
German philosophy is so definitely
opposed to that of democratic na
tions, let us remember that not all
Germans are bad Germans.”
Mr. Holder next talked about the
See—HOLDER—Page 4.
W
War Time Colleges
Under Fire
Congress’ lowering of the draft^ ^provided with base pay and a living
age to 18 cleared the college air,
College officials who had decided
that any policy, however tough, was
better than no policy, applauded.
If the youth draft did not settle
the wartime fate of the 1,700 U. S.
colleges (enrollment: about 1,120,-
000), it set the stage for a settle
ment. Cleared up was the question:
who would go to college—only men
in uniform and the physically unfit.
A battle over a big remaining ques
tion began behind closed doors in
Washington: Who would run the
colleges, the Army & Navy or civ
ilians ?
The Army & Navy wanted to take
over the colleges lock, stock and
barrell. (College president heard
disquieting reports that the Army &
Navy planned to use fewer than 500
of the l,700i colleges; the rest might
have to give up for the duration).
They proposed to pick the students
and propose their courses, eliminate
everything from the curriculum but
technical and essential professional
studies.
College officials were just as de
termined to keep control. The lead
ers of the American Council on
Education had agreed on a plan:
Let military authorities and the col
leges jointly pick from the nation’s
ablest high-school graduates the
members of an Enlisted Training
Corps, limited by military quotas
Each enlistee, put into uniform and
allowance, would choose his own
college, there get four semesters
(about a year and a half) of basic
officer training under R. O. T. C.
or college teachers. After that,
picked men would stay in college
for advanced professional or tech
nical training, the rest would go di
rectly into the armed forces.
Author of this plan was , Har
vard’s President James Bryant Cbn-
ant. I^resident Conaut and a fellow
member of the three-man committeo
that had cleared up the rubber mess,
M. I. T.’s President Karl Compton,
joined in warning the nation that it
could' no longer delay clearing up
its college manpower mess. Taking
issue with Army men who had de
clared that all students were des
tined for the armed forces, they
pointed to the urgent need for ex
perts in war industry. Said Presi
dent Compton: “My own experience
with the scientific program of the
Government and theh technical prob
lems of the services and of indus
try convinces me that cutting off
the continued supply of technically
CQmpetent men would be a national
calamity.”
While men’s colleges faced a great
decision, women’s colleges also ibo-
gan to realize last week that they
had come to a fork in the road.
Urging a national service act for
women, the American Council on
Education’s President George Zook
See—COLLEGES—Page 4.